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"96 Year Old Girl" follows a string of previous singles teasing Da Costa's new collection of songs, and is accompanied by a music video in which he pays tribute to Japan in full glam. The song is about “pushing people away", he explains, and “the feeling you have when you know you’re not being seen by the person you’re with."
“I wrote and recorded this song one night after getting really high, ordering Dominos, and watching Terminator 2,” Da Costa says of the track's origins. “The verse’s vocal melody is a riff on what is known in some musical circles as ‘the lick’ – an extremely common motif in jazz music that became a meme in itself – and the chorus was an old idea that I was kicking around for years and finally found its home here.”
The title came “via Brendan Sepe of the venerable LA noise rock band Semi Trucks," he adds. "He was describing helping a girl move out of her house. He then mentioned that she was 96 years old. I just thought it was so funny that he would describe a 96 year old woman as a girl.”
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